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WEEKNOTE #378Meme Stash as a Folk Archive
People collect and arrange all sorts of things they find meaningful. Pinterest represents an aspirational self, the meme stash an ironic one.
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WEEKNOTE #377Game Definitions
Rather than focusing on ‘Games’, Laas instead focuses on their definition and how *they* work in different ways to achieve certain ends.
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WEEKNOTE #376Full Week
I’ve had a really full week. It was Eve’s Birthday on Wednesday and have been doing lots of things with her.
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WeeknoteA Touch of The Future Shock
OpenAI’s Operator, an AI agent that browses the web, and Deepseek R1, a powerful local model running on my own machine—both have dropped in…
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WeeknoteHold On
Trump Coin has sort of got lost in the noise in UK media due to the Tiktok shut down. But its way more insane…
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WEEKNOTE #373Discipline Doesn’t Arrive On Its Own
I am really struggling to get 2025 started. I’ve been pulling the starter cord over and over, but nothing is turning.
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WEEKNOTE #372HNY 2025
This half-decade has felt like a protracted liminal state: sclerotic stagnation atop a decade of pointless austerity.
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WEEKNOTE #371Xmas 2024
I got back from The Chalk yesterday evening after a wonderful week back home at my parents house.
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WEEKNOTE #370Wrapping Things Up
I spent most of last week wrapping things up for Christmas. Both literally and figuratively.
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WEEKNOTE #369Nearly Done
So I’m done with Permanently Moved for the year. I’m also nearly done with 2024 in general.
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WEEKNOTE #368Wrapped Reactions
Last week was wrapped week, because it wasn’t just Spotify—I’ve had lots of apps deliver year-in-review summaries.
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WEEKNOTE #366Repetition
I think routine and repetition are scaffolds we build around ourselves to climb higher.
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WEEKNOTE #365Have Some Ambition
There’s been a wave of people writing about their exodus from Twitter and the supposed joy they’ve found on Bluesky.
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WEEKNOTE #364A Rediscovered Map
Rediscovering forgotten manifesto notes in my diary, I realise if you want to make meaningful change, you must first be honest with yourself.
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WEEKNOTE #363Wales Weekend
We went to Wales on Friday and spent the weekend away in a cottage in the middle of nowhere with some friends.
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WEEKNOTE #362Make The Thing
You can just create the thing, own the thing, and share the thing on the Internet.
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WEEKNOTE #361Weeknotes Need to be a Sunday Thing
We now live in a world of where the grand tradition of 4chan raids directed by unsupervised AI agents have become financial instruments
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WeeknoteTwo Studio Days
The weekend was non-stop. My band is currently recording so I just spent two days in a windowless room.
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WEEKNOTE #359Generalist Mode
The last few episodes of my podcast have been some what experimental – this week was no exception. #learningmode.
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WEEKNOTE #357Things Are Sounding Good
I’ve spent all day at the practice room today rehearsing with Forest Bed. The upcoming weekends September though October are all given over to…
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WEEKNOTE #356Destination, Distraction
It’s very much a question of destination, distraction, and pooling of energy, and flow.
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WEEKNOTE #355That AI Art Debate
The ‘AI Art’ debate has been raging across every social media Terrain since Ted Chiang’s Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art came out…
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